In her eyes, her father figure and mother figure were her grandparents. The only other person she feel is entitled to "give her away" is her aunt, who has refused the honour on our first meeting.


Father will be invited. But not the mother as she has not seen her mother since a child. She won't even be able to recognise if she saw her mother on the street. To her the mother is non-existent.

Grandparents passed away already.
You are right. It is not that straightforward.

Fiancee is extremely adamant that her father does not give her away because he never took part in raising her. Aunt probably refused because like you said, need to give face to father (i.e., her brother). However the father does acknowledge that he never take care of his daughter, and accepts that he will not assume the typical father role in our wedding. All he wants is to be there to witness her wedding, which my fiancee is fine.

Seems like they really need to talk as a family to resolve this. Someone has to compromise.
Ok I understand. I'm asking here because this has been dragging on for the past few months. Decision needs to be made because the wedding day has been fixed.